GERARD PRASHANTH LAWRENCE
ERITH,UK
Summary
Aspiring for challenging assignments in a progressive company, to demonstrate expertise as a SAP PLM Functional Consultant to contribute towards company’s growth
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Asset Management Lead
Savannah Energy
UK
05.2023 - 04.2025
- Savannah migrated from Legacy to S/4 Hana 2021
- Demonstrated and trained users on EAM SAP Fiori Apps
- Worked with Maintenance and Warehouse department in consolidating Spare Parts list
- Then created EBOM for the relevant spare parts
- Trained uses to use EBOMs in Maintenance Orders
- Worked on custom-development to create Auto-email Alerts for out-of-range Measurement Document values
- Identified low-priority Maintenance Plans, removed the redundant ones by grouping them into a single Plan
- Thereby reducing the number of work orders created in the system
- Standardized the EAM Role-Matrix for users across Savannah (3 plants)
- Successfully created and deployed SAP Personas (Flavors) for EAM And SCM T-codes
- Demonstrated the Trial version of SAP Signavio to management
- Hold theoretical knowledge on SAP IAM
Associate Manager – Client : SHVe (Calor Gas)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
India, India
06.2020 - 04.2023
- Lead the offshore team for ITM (Install-to-maintain)
- Modules in scope for ITM (Install-to-maintain) are Plant Maintenance, Vehicle Management and Customer Services modules, Field Service Management (FSM), Fiori
- Processes in-scope are Preventive Maintenance, General maintenance, Corrective Maintenance, Breakdown/Emergency maintenance, Refurbishment, Installation, Removal, Exchange of assets, Scrapping
- Participated in the AS-IS workshops to understand their existing business processes
- Prepared TO-BE SAP process flows and provided system demo for these processes in S4HANA
- Prepared Blueprint design document for the business processes and obtained approvals
- Established the connection between S4 and FSM – through PROAXIA settings
- Prepared ITM process Demo in S4 and FSM Demo clients
- Executed SIT (System Integration Testing) scripts for ITM processes
- Worked in the UK (Oct, Nov, Dec 2022) under Skilled Worker migrant visa
Associate Manager – Client: Oman Oil
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
India, India
02.2020 - 05.2020
- Oman oil is a state-owned oil exploration, refinery and distribution company based in Oman
- It launched OneERP project to merge its newly acquired companies under one ERP system
- In the Phase-1 of the project 2 companies were in-scope for Plant Maintenance module
- SAP system for the delivery is ECC 6.0
- PM data objects such as Functional Location, Equipment, Class, Characteristics, Assign Characteristics to Class, Assign Class to Equipment, Material BOM, Task List, Maintenance Plan, Maintenance Notification and Maintenance Orders were in-scope for the data migration
- Main activity of the project was data migration
- This included Extraction, Validation, Transformation and Loading
- Extraction of source data was by the Client
- Based on the pre-determined validation rules, validated the Extracted data (based on Accenture owned-tool IDQ – Intelligent Data Quality)
- Held series of discussions with client for Field-to-field(F2F) mapping for each of the objects mentioned above
- Received approvals for the F2F documents from client
- Tested the client provided LSMW for errors / correctness of loading
- The F2F mapping was coded in Informatica tool and used for Conversion
- All master data were loaded through LSMW and transaction data through BAPI.
Associate Manager – Client :Dr. Reddy's Labs India
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
India, India
09.2019 - 01.2020
- Dr
- Reddys’s Laboratories is a Global Pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad, India
- It launched S4SPEED Program to bring their existing SAP Landscape into S4HANA (1809)
- The scope of the project included harmonizing existing SAP processes and introducing new SAP processes (including FIORI applications) for India, Mexico and UK plants
- Held the position of SAP PM Consultant for the S4SPEED Plant Maintenance Module
- Conducted the AS-IS workshops to understand and record pain-points in their existing SAP processes
- Analysed and evaluated pain-points for genuineness, value-addition to process improvement
- Classified the pain-points to FIT and GAP
- Provided a solution to all pain-points (FIT/GAP)
- For the FIT ones, tested the solution in SANDBOX and demonstrated it to the client and obtained sign-off
- Re-wrote the existing BPDs to reflect the pain-points
- Conducted the TO-BE workshop by presenting and explaining the TO-BE BPD’s and received user sign-off on the TO-BE business processes
- Introduced new processes in S4HANA as per myConcerto applicability
- Such as Refurbishment Process, Auto-PR generation from Work order, Time Synchronization, Filter Maintenance
- Simulated these new processes in Sandbox and demonstrated in the TO-BE workshop
- Obtained user sign-off on these new processes too.
Associate Manager – Client : Alstom Light Rail
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
India, India
11.2018 - 08.2019
- Alstom (Tramways) is a leader in manufacturing and maintenance of High-Speed trains and Tramways spread across continents
- As part of the Deployment Team, provided SAP Plant Maintenance functional inputs for its GSI (Global Single Instance) Rollouts in Israel
- SAP system for the project is SAP ECC 6.0
- Conducted workshops (Pre-Study) with Alstom representative and key users to identify GAPs in process and To-Be process
- Configured (SPRO) standard objects for Plant maintenance (Such as, Create Maintenance Plant, Planning Plant, Assigning Maintenance Plant to Planning Plant, Assign order types to Maintenance Plant)
- Conducted Key User End-to-End Training on the GSI maintenance processes
- These include Creation and management of Technical Objects, Order Processing (Preventive and Corrective Maintenance), Order Settlement, External Procurement of Spare Parts, and External Repair processes
- Construction of Data Load files for Plant Maintenance Objects and ensure the load is fully completed without errors.
Associate Manager – Client : Merck
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
India, India
09.2017 - 10.2018
- Merck (Performance Materials) is a pioneer in supplying raw materials to semiconductor and LCD screen manufacturing companies across continents
- Provided SAP Plant Maintenance functional inputs for its Quattro-HiTech Rollouts in Taiwan and US plants
- SAP system for the project is SAP ECC 6.0
- Conducted workshops with Merck representative and key users to identify GAPs in process and To-Be process
- Configured (SPRO) standard objects for Plant maintenance (Such as, create Equipment category, Create Maintenance Plant, Planning Plant, Assigning Maintenance Plant to Planning Plant, Assign order types to Maintenance Plant, Collective PR processing, Creating Serial number profile, Define Location)
- Creating Training Material for the identified GAP process
- Example: Container Management process through Equipment
- Conducted Key User Training on the Quattro Plant maintenance processes
- These include Creation and management of Technical Objects, Order Processing (Preventive and Corrective Maintenance), Order Settlement, External Procurement of Spare Parts, and External Repair processes
- Construction of Data Load files for Plant Maintenance Objects and ensure the load is fully completed without errors.
Team Lead – Client : 3M
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
India, India
06.2016 - 08.2017
- 3M is one of the few clients using SAP Agile Methodology for its Release
- Handled 17A release covering parts of the USA and Europe while leading a team of 4 members
- SAP system for the project is SAP ECC 6.0
- Involved in creating SAP test data for PM, QM process areas and assist in String Testing team for script execution
- Engaging in Planning Process Area nodes for the weekly sprint, communicating with Process team and get their approvals
- Participating in daily SCRUM (Stand-up) calls to update on the sprint progress
- Conducting BP317 review for the Nodes and communicate to users or QTM team accordingly for approvals
- Received Accenture Celebrates Excellence (ACE) award for the work done on this project.
Team Lead – Client : Shell Oil & Gas
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
India, India
11.2013 - 05.2016
- SAP system for the project is SAP ECC 6.0
- Resolving SAP issues for Shell Upstream business location across the globe
- Owning Shell SAP issues and bringing them to logical closures
- Ensuring the relevant stakeholders are kept updated
- Acting as an interface between SAP Plant Maintenance Application and Non-SAP Applications and ensuring smooth and uninterrupted SAP Plant Maintenance application is available to end-users
- Suggesting Team Members for Rewards and Recognition programs
- ACE (Accenture Celebrates Excellence) - awards
- Magic Cabinet Awards
- CI (Continuous Improvement) Awards
- Nominating / Approving team members for Training Programs
- Ensuring resource loading / leveling of team members
- Devising Training programs for new team members
- These Training programs included Shell Business Process, Shell SAP Systems.
Project Manager - Client: Honeywell Aerospace
NTT Data
India, India
05.2005 - 11.2013
- Managed various projects as a Project Manager at NTT Data.
Territory Manager (Sales & Service)
MICO BOSCH
India
04.2003 - 04.2005
- Spearheaded the territory sales activities including dealer management, stock allocation & sub-dealer networks and supervised Key Institutional sales
- Managed a team of service personnel to provide high-quality service to the dealers/customers
- Ensured the seamless flow of goods to the dealer network and ensured payment collection from dealers within the Credit Incentive period
- Managed the demand and supply of goods for Institutional buyers
- Offered bulk discounts only to institutional buyers on certain fast-moving goods across the territory
- Devised tailored pricing to meet the varied needs of dealers resulting in their optimum performance and driving sales in the region
- Managed goods supply to various OEMs based in the territory
- Conceived and managed low-cost marketing campaigns, building strong awareness despite a limited marketing budget
- Evaluated projects & handle planning inclusive of budget based on market intelligence, estimation and thorough analysis of the market trend and scheduling for successful execution of critical projects
- Identified and developed new market sectors for revenue growth and maintained good relationships with customers to achieve repeat/referral business
- Conducted presentations and negotiations to tap the best business
- Addressed customer warranty issues on parts and labor for both Institutional and Commercial customers
- Played a stellar role in appointing 3 new authorized service workshops within the territory and 5 new second-level authorized distributors.
Education
Master of Business Administration - MARKETING & FINANCE
CHRIST COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
BANGALORE, INDIA 03.2001 - 09.2003
Bachelor of Science - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MALNAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
HASSAN, INDIA 03.1995 - 09.1999
Skills
- SAP Plant Maintenance
- Project Management
- Customer Service Management
- Material Management
- Sales & Distribution
- Requirement Gathering & Analysis
- Testing Functional & System Specifications, Designs/ Prototypes
- Training & Development
- GAP Analysis
- Team Management
- Strong client facing ability
- Outspoken and communicative, in terms of both written and verbal, with team, clients and vendors
- An efficient team player with proven ability to work under tight deadlines
- Possess excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills Cross cultural leadership skills gained through working on multiple projects, while coordinating with On-Shore/ Offshore teams
- Excellent team handling skills, providing guidance towards client handling and completing projects, ensuring quality and adherence to SLA
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Certification
- SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S4/HANA Asset Management, 2022
- ITIL Foundation Certification in IT Service Management, 2015
- SAP Certified Application Associate –CRM Fundamentals with SAP CRM 7.0, 2011
- SAP Certified Application Associate Order Fulfilment ERP 6.0, 2010
- SAP Certified Associate Solution Consultant PLM – Maintenance & Repair ECC6.0, 2010
- AZURE Fundamentals, 2020
Custom
Available on request
Timeline
Asset Management Lead
Savannah Energy
05.2023 - 04.2025
Associate Manager – Client : SHVe (Calor Gas)
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
06.2020 - 04.2023
Associate Manager – Client: Oman Oil
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
02.2020 - 05.2020
Associate Manager – Client :Dr. Reddy's Labs India
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
09.2019 - 01.2020
Associate Manager – Client : Alstom Light Rail
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
11.2018 - 08.2019
Associate Manager – Client : Merck
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
09.2017 - 10.2018
Team Lead – Client : 3M
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 08.2017
Team Lead – Client : Shell Oil & Gas
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
11.2013 - 05.2016
Project Manager - Client: Honeywell Aerospace
NTT Data
05.2005 - 11.2013
Territory Manager (Sales & Service)
MICO BOSCH
04.2003 - 04.2005
Master of Business Administration - MARKETING & FINANCE
CHRIST COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
03.2001 - 09.2003
Bachelor of Science - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MALNAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
03.1995 - 09.1999
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